From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Dec 18 10:19:16 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F085A37B401 for ; Wed, 18 Dec 2002 10:19:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtpproxy2.mitre.org (smtpproxy2.mitre.org [192.80.55.70]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2C97343ED8 for ; Wed, 18 Dec 2002 10:19:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jandrese@mitre.org) Received: from avsrv2.mitre.org (avsrv2.mitre.org [128.29.154.4]) by smtpproxy2.mitre.org (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id gBIIIxV20561; Wed, 18 Dec 2002 13:18:59 -0500 (EST) Received: from MAILHUB2 (mailhub2.mitre.org [129.83.221.18]) by smtpsrv1.mitre.org (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id gBIIIvi04294; Wed, 18 Dec 2002 13:18:57 -0500 (EST) Received: from mm112324-2k.mitre.org (128.29.3.65) by mailhub2.mitre.org with SMTP id 508378; Wed, 18 Dec 2002 13:18:48 -0500 Message-ID: <3E00BC08.1020308@mitre.org> Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2002 13:18:48 -0500 From: Jason Andresen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20021130 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: David Nicholas Kayal Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: I'm leaving the project References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG David Nicholas Kayal wrote: > This type of thing caused the division of the BSD projects in > the first place, and hurts the project over all and is the primary reason > that Linux has such a better market position then BSD. > > I love FreeBSD. I dunno why. I just do. I'm no expert, but it sits > right with me. It is a shame that due to people's socialization problems > that such a great operating system is regulated to the backwaters of the > OS oceans. > > I suggest some people realize that they have problems with dealing with > people--we are not computers in that certain inputs cannot guarantee > certain outputs--and perhaps seek therapy to improve their socialization > skills. > > That and $1.10 might buy you a cup a coffee. Yes, we need to embrace the trolls and stop marginalizing them. The Troll-man has been downtrodden for far too long, it is time for him to step into the light of society and be accepted for what he is...assuming they don't shrivel up and die in the light. I don't know about you, but that's a risk I'm more than willing to take. -- \ |_ _|__ __|_ \ __| Jason Andresen jandrese@mitre.org |\/ | | | / _| Network and Distributed Systems Engineer _| _|___| _| _|_\___| Office: 703-883-7755 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message